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Fieldwork Report: Aidan Gregg

Learning to Lead in the Heart of Athens Aidan Gregg, 2025 Katherine Barton Platt Fellowship Recipient  In the bustling center of metropolitan Athens, the sounds of city life blend with […]

Fieldwork Report: Anjuli Latchmansingh

All That Remains at Çadır Höyük Anjuli Latchmansingh, 2025 Strange-Midkiff Families Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  Within the village of Peynir Yemez in Türkiye is an archaeological excavation site named Çadır Höyük […]

Fieldwork Report: Aayush Umesh

Photo from Aayush Umesh in Tall Hisban

Finding My Path Aayush Umesh, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  A year ago today, I had no idea that I would become an Islamic archaeologist. My path […]

Fieldwork Report: Lonnie Reid

Photo of Lonnie Reid operating a magnetometer.

Magnetometry in the Erbil Plain Lonnie Reid, 2024 Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient.  My name is Lonnie Reid and thanks to ASOR’s scholarship, I had the opportunity to go to the Kurdistan […]

Fieldwork Report: Gabbi Graber

Photo of Tel Burna, Israel

Memorized Movement Gabbi Graber, 2024 Stevan B. Dana Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient My alarm goes off at 4:50 a.m. and in a blur of confusion it takes a moment to remember […]

Fieldwork Report: Dominique Langis-Barsetti

Fig. 3: Teaching field school students how to survey in one of the few remaining soft patches of ground.

The Joys of Thinking on Your Feet Dominique Langis-Barsetti, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship For many, archaeology is either an epic tale of breathtaking ruins, jaw-dropping finds, and exciting […]

Fieldwork Report: Christos Theodorou

Ash the World Turns or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Heat in a Bronze Age Oven: Excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia, Cyprus Christos Theodorou, 2024 Meyers/Wright Fieldwork Scholarship […]

Fieldwork Report: Ofelia Tychon

Photo of Ofelia Tychon on the RLIIM projec.

Getting to Know Rural Assyrians Ofelia Tychon, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  This spring, I got a chance to be part of the excavation team for the Rural […]

Fieldwork Report: Rubar Yavuz

Tell Tayinat 2024: A Season in the Shadow of an Earthquake Rubar Yavuz, 2024 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient Tell Tayinat is a mound located 18 km west […]

Fieldwork Report: Brady Hill

Posing with one of the washed pottery baskets. After being cleaned by the Kurdish students on the project team, it was my daily task to sort through these baskets of pottery, counting each sherd and keeping those that were diagnostic.

Summer Days in Bazyan – My Involvement in the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project Brady Hill, 2024 G. Ernest Wright Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  As a budding archaeologist researching ancient Mesopotamia, saying […]